Arctic

Q:Are there three times as many polar bears in the Arctic now as there were in the 1970s?

A:The population of polar bears today is larger than it was in the 1970s, due mainly to legislation banning polar bear hunting, but exact numbers are unclear. We couldn’t find any figures showing that the population had tripled.

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